[Talk-GB] Combined Authorities and Government Regions

[Colin Smale]

Hi James,


Thanks for your input. I will indeed stick to just the two CA's in the North East. It's a mystery to me (as a southerner) why the existing CA got split in two like that, unless it was going to be too unwieldy with both Northumberland and County Durham included, too unbalanced if one of them was left out, and too small if both of them were omitted? I remember a schoolmate of mine who originated from South Shields told me of the "rivalry" between places in the North East...


An integrated transport system is one of the big reasons to have a Combined Authority, and Nexus seems to work well across the whole of the area. It would be a backward step to split it up across the two CAs, so it looks like they have come up with a very creative solution.


Thanks again
Colin > On 06/05/2022 15:38 James Derrick <lists at jamesderrick.org> wrote:
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> Hi Colin,
> On 06/05/2022 11:13, Colin Smale wrote:
> > We are therefore missing the following Combined Authorities:
> > * North East > I'm in one of the recent combined authorities, but to give you an idea of their public profile, I _thought_ Northumberland was in NECA - it _was_ but split out into North of Tyne Combined Authority!
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> The structure and powers seem to be in flux, but it would be good to (correctly) represent the boundaries and ideally heirarchy in OSM.
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> > Does anyone have any comments, objections, suggestions? > All I can say is thanks and good luck unpicking a multi-dimensional real-world structure and modelling it in OSM!
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> The Wikipedia page suggests a Pythonesque situation with several NE county-level authorities aligned into two Combined Authority blocks, but the two blocks then combine into one for specific policy areas such as transport (The North East Joint Transport Committee <https://northeastca.gov.uk/decision-making/the-north-east-joint-transport-committee/> has a sort-of structure diagram). I'd suggest stop at the 2x CA.
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> The two NE CA seem to remain separate for other matters (where they presumably disagree). "Splitters!" :-)
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> Happy Mapping,
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